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  2. National Council of Educational Research and Training

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    Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]

  3. Meenakshi Jain - Wikipedia

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    Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi.In 2014, she was nominated as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research by the Government of India. [1]

  4. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [28] [29] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.

  5. Parabola - Wikipedia

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    The curve of the chains of a suspension bridge is always an intermediate curve between a parabola and a catenary, but in practice the curve is generally nearer to a parabola due to the weight of the load (i.e. the road) being much larger than the cables themselves, and in calculations the second-degree polynomial formula of a parabola is used.

  6. Parable - Wikipedia

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    [11] The defining characteristic of the parable is the presence of a subtext suggesting how a person should behave or what he should believe. Aside from providing guidance and suggestions for proper conduct in one's life, parables frequently use metaphorical language which allows people to more easily discuss difficult or complex ideas.

  7. Progressives align with DOGE on defense cuts: ‘Let’s play ball’

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    Billionaire Elon Musk’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is attracting interest from an unlikely corner: the left. Progressives aren’t likely to support much of what Musk ...

  8. Quadrature of the Parabola - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord ...

  9. Paraboloid - Wikipedia

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    In this position, the hyperbolic paraboloid opens downward along the x-axis and upward along the y-axis (that is, the parabola in the plane x = 0 opens upward and the parabola in the plane y = 0 opens downward). Any paraboloid (elliptic or hyperbolic) is a translation surface, as it can be generated by a moving parabola directed by a second ...